Psychoeducational Assessments

Comprehensive psycho-educational and/or school neuropsychological assessments provide answers to your questions about why your child is struggling. The assessment also examines learning strengths and challenges.

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety disorders such as generalized anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and selective mutism can greatly impact a student's performance and functioning in school.  An assessment in this area as it relates to the impact of academic performance will be explored.  ​

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

ADHD impacts learning, concentration, and attention. Assessment will focus on memory, attention, planning/executive functioning skills.

Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neuro-developmental disorder impacting social interaction, communication skills and often includes an intense interest and/or repetitive behaviors. Autism diagnostic assessment will involve direct testing, rating scale information, as well as observations and interviews. ​

A Comprehensive Assessment is often sought out for the following concerns:

Learning Disability​

Dyslexia (Reading Disability)

Common condition, impacting 1 in 5 people, that affects the way a person’s brain processes written and spoken language. Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder affecting the ability to read quickly and efficiently, comprehend as well as can impact writing skills. Warning signs look different at different ages, but can include trouble recognizing the letters of the alphabet, difficulty reading out loud, reading slowly, problems understanding reading material, and difficulty with rote memorization.

Dyscalculia (Math Disability)

A learning disorder that makes it hard to make sense of numbers and math concepts. Students most commonly struggle with number sense, or the basic understanding of how numbers work. Signs of dyscalculia include difficulty recognizing numbers and symbols, counting on fingers, or a hard time coming up with a plan to solve a math problem. If a child’s math ability and number sense is significantly below other abilities, it is a sign that they may have dyscalculia.

Dysgraphia (Writing Disability)

A student with dysgraphia can have trouble putting words on paper, messy writing, poor spelling or punctuation. Students with dysgraphia often avoid or melt down during writing activities, don’t take notes or write down their assignments, and “hate to write.” A key sign is if a child can tell a story out loud but can’t get it on paper.

Parts of an Evaluation

Components included in an evaluation are based on the questions to be answered. Depending on the scope of the evaluation, it may include:

  • Cognitive Functioning

  • Academic Functioning

  • Visual-Spatial Processing

  • Auditory Processing

  • Social-Emotional Functioning Assessment (ex: anxiety, depression, behavior)

  • Attention and Executive Functioning

  • Learning and Memory

  • Observations & Interviews (ex: developmental history)

The Process

  • I seek to understand the reason for the assessment referral. Information such as developmental history, reviewing any previous assessments, and understanding historical and current school performance is important. This information will guide the specific neurocognitive, academic, and processing areas (ex: attention, auditory, visual) to assess.
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    (About 30 minutes)

  • The assessment often consists of an IQ assessment, a broad academic assessment, additional academic/neuropsychological assessments in the area of referral concern, cognitive processing assessments, and a social-emotional assessment (ex: anxiety, depression, adaptive skills). Information is typically gathered from parents, the child, and teachers to comprehensively understand your child's functioning.
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    (ranges from 4-8 hours; typically 2-3 sessions)

  • Once the assessment is complete, several hours are spent scoring the assessments, interpreting the results and synthesizing the information to be shared in an informative and reader-friendly report. From the assessment report, parents will be able to understand how to help their child better at home and in the community. Recommendations will be made for school support (ex: IEP or Section 504 Plan, if appropriate). The section of the recommendations in the report is called the Action Plan.
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    (2-3 weeks)

  • A parent follow-up will be held to discuss the findings from the report and the Action Plan for support. This is a great time for parents to ask any questions and understand more ways to support their child. After this conversation, I am still available to answer questions as parents engage with new resources.
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    (45 minutes -1 hour)

Available Assessments

IQ Testing

Q Assessment - (IQ assessment, report, sending to schools of your choice, follow up via email)

WPPSI-IV (up to age 6) or WISC-V (ages 6 + ). This service is consistent with expectations for private schools (ex: Nueva, Harker, Helios). It comes with the comprehensive assessment, report, which can be sent to a school or schools of your choice. Brief learning recommendations are provided within the report.
IQ Assessment is in person.

IQ Assessment - Comprehensive Package (IQ assessment, report, sending to schools, plus Zoom Call)

WPPSI-IV (up to age 6) or WISC-V (ages 6 + ). This service is consistent with expectations for private schools (ex: Nueva, Harker, Heios). It comes with the assessment, report of findings, with specific recommendations and a parent follow up on Zoom. Results will be available within 3-4 days.
IQ Assessment is in person. Location to be provided.

WPPSI-IV IQ Assessment - Ages 2 and 1/2 to 3 years and 11 months

IQ Assessment - Expedited Results (IQ assessment, report, sending to schools, Zoom call + report ready within 24 hours)

Direct Student Support

Academic Assessment

An academic assessment provides insight into your child's age level and/or grade level performance; the assessment comes with a report, follow up and recommendations. For all ages.
Academic Assessments include: WJ-IV & KTEA-3

Psychoeducational Assessment

Psychoeducational Assessment (3 sessions) - COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL NEUROPSYCHOLOGY

This comprehensive assessment examines: IQ, Overview of Academics, (& likely a deeper dive into reading, writing, and math) Social-Emotional functioning, attention, learning & memory, visual processing &/or auditory processing.

It is broken into at least two sessions, 2.5 hours each. Please schedule two sessions to start. An initial intake will be held with parent. The total cost of an evaluation is $5500 + (depending on the complexity of the case).

Psychoeducational Assessment (2-3 sessions)

This assessment most often examines: IQ, Academics, Social-Emotional functioning, attention, learning and memory.
It is broken into at least two sessions, 2.5 hours each. Please schedule one session to start. An initial intake will be held with parent. The total cost of an evaluation is $4500 + (depending on the complexity of the case).